Golden Gate Bridge
by Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Title
Golden Gate Bridge
Artist
Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Featured : All Natural Beauty of this World 1/05/2013
Stop Time with Art 1/06/2013
California Dreamin 1/28/2013
ABC Group 12/09/2013
Golden Gate Bridge at dusk, right before the fog sets in.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County. It is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world".
Construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million.The Golden Gate Bridge construction project was carried out by the McClintic-Marshall Construction Co., a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation founded by Howard H. McClintic and Charles D. Marshall, both of Lehigh University.
Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he placed a brick from his alma mater's demolished McMicken Hall in the south anchorage before the concrete was poured. He innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected steelworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed (when the bridge was near completion) when the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became proud members of the (informal) Half Way to Hell Club.
The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget.
With the death of Jack Balestreri in April 2012, all workers involved in the original construction are now deceased.
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Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Thank you very much Eti for the feature in VISIONS OF THE NIGHT Artist Group ! much appreciated !
Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Thank you Ed for the feature in 1 A Day Photographs Internet Newsletter ! Much Appreciated !
Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Thank you very much Jose for featuring this artwork in your group STOP TIME WITH ART ! Much appreciated !